with rest mass is not altogether> new to physics> but a continuation and elaboration of what is found> in this textbook:> > In the textbook CHEM ONE by Waser, Trueblood,> Knobler, 2nd ed., 1980,> page 307 is a picture of the> Debroglie waves for permitted and prohibited> orbitals.> > And so the idea I am pursuing is that the electron> has that ring> shaped or closed loop shaped geometry and the ridges> and troughs of E-> charge and M+ or M- magnetic monopoles when added up> gives rest-mass.> So that a M+ ridge is a 1 eV rest mass and a E- ridge> is another 1 eV> rest mass and the troughs are each 1 more eV rest> mass and so the> electron in ground state sums up both ridges and> troughs of E- and M+> (perhaps M-) sums to a total of> 500,000 eV rest-mass. The same goes for the proton of> its troughs and> ridges when summed equals 938,000,000 eV rest mass.> > Now there are a lot of kinks and issues I have to> overcome, but that> is to be expected. What I am concerned with is> getting a general> framework for the 6th edition and if I have kinks and> issues, I can> work them out in the 6th edition.> > Now I wonder if the electron wavelength has ever been> measured and how> many such ridges and troughs would exist in the> hydrogen atom electron> in ground state. So if these parameters are available> and if they come> up with say 400,000 or 500,000 or 600,000 such ridges> and troughs, it> is safe to say I conclusively discovered the meaning> of rest-mass.> > And if the proton in hydrogen in ground state comes> up with a number> for the ridges and troughs to be about 1,000,000,000> then there also I> conclusively discovered the inner meaning of rest> mass.> > I think the physics literature has some sort of> numbers data of the> wavelength of the proton and electron and how many> troughs and ridges> accrues from orbitals as shown in CHEM ONE.> > Now earlier today I wrote that the proton is likely> to involve a> volume of the wave but I rather doubt that, and> suspect that the> proton wave is a surface area of a ellipsoid, not a> volume of the> ellipsoid. So that the electron is circumference of C> = pi(2r) and the> proton is surface area of S.A.= 4pi(r^2). I changed> my mind because> the Maxwell Equations are about electricity which is> a surface> phenomenon more than a solid interior phenomenon. And> the fact that> 10^9 is easier to come by from squaring 10^4 or 10^5.> > Now probably the biggest kink in the armor of this,> is likely to be> that I need to inject the plutonium atom rather than> the hydrogen atom> ground state. So that the proton ellipsoid is going> to be highly> elongated whereas the hydrogen is closer to> spherical.> > And keep in mind, the proton is the bar magnet in> Faraday's law and> the electron is the closed loop wire, so that the> electron Space of> its circle has to be far larger than the proton> surface area that is> going to be a plunging bar magnet into the electron> closed loop. Now> this maybe difficult to pull off since the electron> has only 500,000> ridges and troughs to work with while the proton has> 938,000,000> ridges and troughs to work with. I would be more> comfortable if the> electron had 938,000,000 ridges and troughs to build> a closed loop> wire.> > Another kink is whether only M+ resides with> electrons or whether both> M+ and M- reside.> > So I have a lot of issues, but do not care so long as> I have the> correct overall general framework. The fact that the> chemistry text> has almost the identical idea, except they do not> push it further> along into making rest mass, is supporting evidence> that I am on the> correct framework.> > --> > Google's archives are top-heavy in hate-spew from> search-engine-> bombing. Only Drexel's Math Forum has done a> excellent, simple and> fair archiving of AP posts for the past 15 years as> seen here:> > http://mathforum.org/kb/profile.jspa?userID=499986> > Archimedes Plutonium> http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium> whole entire Universe is just one big atom> where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies